…also stopped the 2020 U.S. census from including a question about immigration status. One of the state’s biggest victories was saving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program, which…
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‘House keys not handcuffs’: Advocates rally to house homeless people in SF vacant units
…that the city has vacant apartments with people sleeping on the streets. The U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent American Community Survey on occupancy status in San Francisco found about 52,600…
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McNear: It may be the oldest profession but in Mendocino it was the most hidden
…set to appear in court two days later. She likely paid a fine, but there isn’t a record of it. The 1930 census recorded Pearl as a single woman, still…
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Proposed stream ordinance would create buffer from development in Marin County
…Geronimo Valley, based on census information. Near Marin’s geographic center, the valley is surrounded by wooded open space areas, just west of densely populated parts of central and eastern Marin….
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Sonoma County’s strategic goals take shape as supervisors allot millions to achieve them
…achieve that outcome.” According to U.S. Census numbers from 2021, Sonoma County is 2 percent Black, 5 percent Asian, 28 percent Hispanic or Latino, and 61 percent white (4 percent…
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Women of color seen as huge potential vote in November — here’s why they’re motivated
…Census. At nearly 4.4 million they have grown 55 percent over the last decade. With little language barriers for the vast majority, their participation in the elections this year will…
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Race and Coronavirus: The pandemic’s toll on essential workers
…of the 2014-2018 estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Immigrants comprise 17.3% of essential workers. Occupations where minorities are overrepresented include building cleaning (Hispanics, 40.2%) and child…
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Tracking health insurance for people under 65 in Bay Area
…percent of people in Napa County and 8.2 percent in Sonoma County were without insurance, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Statewide, the percentage of the people under…
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Living at the intersection of rich and poor in Bay Area
…understand poverty.” Atherton has a median household income of $250,000, according to 2018 census data, and two-thirds of its residents are white. In the neighboring Redwood City ZIP code, where…
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Sonoma County supervisors OK funding to address COVID-19 disparities
…that we’re still in this place.” The new approach, dubbed the Enhanced COVID-19 Response Strategy, involves partnering with nonprofit organizations and focusing public health efforts on census tracts that have…